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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:42:34 -0600
From:      Dave Duchscher <daved@tamu.edu>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, Peter.Blok@inter.NL.net, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: netgraph ng_bridge and ipfilter
Message-ID:  <20010328094234.D1325@net.tamu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3AC0CCC3.F7DD8133@elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:24:19AM -0800
References:  <200103270656.IAA78972@info.iet.unipi.it> <3AC0CCC3.F7DD8133@elischer.org>

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On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:24:19AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > in this case, this person seemed to _need_ the interaction in
> > order to have a bridging firewall
>
>
> that would be a brouter and not a bridge..Filering on IP at link layer..
> yuck.

I would call it a packet filter style Firewall and they have been
around for a while now.  No, I don't see them as bad.  They have their
uses just like any technology.  In fact, if I ever get the time (not
likely), I was thinking of researching converting our packet filtering
firewall (Drawbridge) to a netgraph node.

DaveD

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